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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:54:09 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Atlas compilation
Message-ID:  <20041013165408.GA35673@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041013143844.GA18223@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <2sveogF1oscf3U1@uni-berlin.de> <20041012154856.GA67791@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041013143844.GA18223@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:38:44AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:48:56AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:05:20PM +0200, Toyotoshy wrote:
> > > Hallo evrybody,
> > > I'm just a newbie and I'm trying to compile /usr/ports/math/atlas
> > > Compilation started 6 hours ago and:
> > >=20
> > > du /usr/ports/math/atlas
> > > ....
> > > 360160  /usr/ports/math/atlas
> > >=20
> > > isn't it a bit too much time and space?
> >=20
> > No, it's an enormous port.  Depending on how slow your machine is, it
> > may take days to build, or it could be as little as 24 hours.
>=20
> Yes, not only does it do a lot of things, but since it is
> Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, it actually compiles
> several versions of each function and runs microbenchmarks on them to
> determine which one to use.  Ideally, you should build it when the
> system is nearly idle to avoid perturbing the results.

Hmm, that probably means the package is useless, right?

Kris
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